Becoming A Parent

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; Butthe rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son; But he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, even the fruit of righteousness.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: — read the full passage →

The rod and reproof give wisdom; But a child left to himself causeth shame to his mother.

My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: — read the full passage →

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. — read the full passage →

I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men; — read the full passage →

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →

Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:

A wise sonhearethhis father’s instruction; But a scoffer heareth not rebuke.

Whoso loveth correction loveth knowledge; But he that hateth reproof is brutish.

He is in the way of life that heedeth correction; But he that forsaketh reproof erreth.

These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, — read the full passage →

And Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart; — read the full passage →

Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but make them known unto thy children and thy children’s children;

And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →